Information on Seat Selection

In best available seat booking, you choose a category of seats and select the number of tickets you would like. An automatic allocation of seats will take place within the selected category; you receive the best available seats. Numbered seats are generally located next to each other. If your computer is having problems with Java, then the best available seat booking will automatically take place.

In seating chart booking, you personally select your exact seats from agraphic seating chart. Begin the seating chart booking and choose an area. There you can select the seats by clicking on them. Seating chart booking is not offered for some events.

In this price category, seats are predominantly offered (but not guaranteed). In some circumstances, standing room tickets at the same price are also sent. An exact request regarding standing room or a seat unfortunately cannot be fulfilled in this context. A later exchange of the tickets delivered is not possible.

Only individual seats (no groups of adjoining seats) can still be booked in the corresponding category using the best available seat booking. Individual seats are scattered vacancies. Even if a greater number are available, these seats are not adjoining. Adjoining seats might still be available using the seating chart booking.

Information on Online Sales

Ticket pre-sales for performances at all venuesgenerally begin on the same date two months before the day of the performance. For performances in all other venues, pre-sales generally begin one month before the performance date. If the first pre-sale date falls on a Saturday or Sunday, then pre-sales will begin on that Friday. If it falls on a holiday, then sales will begin the daybefore. Some events cannot be purchased through online sales. For such cases, please contact our telephone ticket service ((+49) (0) 711. 20 20 90, Mon – Fri 10 am – 8 pm, Sat 10 am – 6 pm). Performances outside of the previously mentioned pre-sale periods can be ordered using the online ordering form. Please examine our general information on ticket pre-sales.

Gift certificates can be used as a form of payment for one or more performances at the Statestheatres Stuttgart. You can even use them to pay for subscriptions and merchandising products. Gift vouchers can be transferred to third parties and can be redeemed without any time limit until cancelled. If the order total is greater than the value of the gift voucher, the difference can be paid out. Remaining balances will be repaid in the form of a gift voucher. Redeeming gift vouchers for online sales is currently not possible. Please use our alternative sales channels for this purpose.

Tickets or gift vouchers can be sent out for a shipping fee of 1.50 €, if the time of the order allows for it. The Staatstheater Stuttgart cannot accept any responsibility for the shipment.
Confirmation of purchase will automatically be sent by email to the address you provided, as soon as purchase of your order has been initiated.
By presenting printed confirmation of purchase, tickets can be picked up at the theatre box office or at the appropriate performance box office; gift vouchers only at the theatre box office (Mon – Fri 10 am – 7 pm, Sat 10 am – 2 pm).
Only printed tickets are valid as passes for means of transport with the VVS. Printed confirmations of purchase will not be accepted as valid ride passes for the VVS.

You can purchase any of our print@home ticket(s) (with the start of season 14/15) at any time and print them out yourself. This booking service is available to you until 1 hour before a performance starts at no additional cost and is specified during the booking via choice of shipping option. After completing the purchasing transaction, the desired ticket will be displayed as a PDF file and can be printed immediately. You will receive a confirmation of purchase at the email address you have provided, with the ticket file as an attachement. The personalization of each ticket with a name and date of birth prevents improper duplication for the protection of the purchaser. Each ticket entitles the holder to one unique admission in conjunction with a valid ID. If there are any questions, please contact our telephone sales office ((+49) (0) 711. 20 20 90). Operating hours telephone sales office: Mon - Fri 10 am - 08 pm; Sat 10 am - 06 pm.

print@home ticket = transit ticketYour print@home ticket is valid as a transit ticket for public transportation in the VVS system at no additional cost and will automatically beeig print with your print@home ticket. Please pay attention to the required personalisation during the booking transaction.

Filip Barankiewicz

Principal Dancer

VITA

Filip Barankiewicz was born in Warsaw, Poland. In 1986, he began his ballet training at the National Ballet School in his home city and performed in various ballets in Warsaw and Lódz. During that time Emil Wesolowski created a role on him in The Way. In 1991 he won the Waslaw Nijinski Medal. In 1995, he graduated and won the first prize at the National Ballet Competition in Poland. In the same year he was a finalist at the "Grand Prix d'Eurovision for young Dancers" in Lausanne. He continued his studies with Marika Besobrasova at the Académie de Dance Classique in Monte Carlo where he received a scholarship sponsored by the Nurejev Foundation and graduated in 1996.

Filip Barankiewicz joined the Stuttgart Ballet in the same year. He was promoted to Demi Soloist in September 2000, to Soloist in September 2001. His promotion to Principal Dancer followed in September 2002.

Filip Barankiewicz joins the Stuttgart Ballet on tours all around the world. Since 2003 he is dancing as a permanent guest with the National Theatre Prague, Czech Republic, where he performed Siegfried in Swan Lake as well as Petrucchio in The Taming of the Shrew and the title role in Onegin (both: John Cranko) which he performed with different partners such as Tereza Podařilová, Sue Jin Kang, Maria Eichwald and Alicia Amatriain. Furthermore he appeared in several Galas in Prague, Poznań and Krakow as well as in Bodrum, Salzburg, Karlsruhe and Pforzheim. He also danced Petrucchio as a guest with the Ballet do Theatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro, with the Norwegian National Ballet, with the Leipzig Ballet, with the Ballet of the Semperoper Dresden, where he danced with Leslie Heylmann in 2008 at her Farewell performance, and with the West Australian Ballet. In 2008 he also danced a Pas de deux from John Cranko’s The Taming of the Shrew with Leslie Heylmann in Birmingham at the Farewell Gala for Desmond Kelly, the outgoing Director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet. In 2004 Filip Barankiewicz danced the male title role in Romeo and Juliet (John Cranko) as well as the role of Albrecht in Giselle in 2006 as a guest of the Companhia Nacional de Bailado, Lisbon. In 2009 he also danced Romeo at the Vienne State Opera with Polina Semionova as his Juliet. In 2003, 2006 and 2009 Filip Barankiewicz has been invited to the World Ballet Festival Tokyo, Japan where he danced with internationally renowned female dancers Alessandra Ferri, Alina Cojocaru and Maria Eichwald. In 2010 he guested with Maria Eichwald at the Polish National Ballet in his hometown Warsaw in John Cranko’s Onegin. At the beginning of 2013 Ballet Director Ivan Cavallari invited him to dance Basilio in the World Premiere of Don Quichotte ou l’illusion perdue by Rui Lopes Graça at the Ballet de l’Opèra du Rhin. In November 2013 he danced the Pas de deux My way (Stephan Thoss) with Alexander Zaitsev at the Gala during the Festival “Three Centuries of World Ballet“ on the occasion of the 240th Anniversary of the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in the State Kremlin Palace in Moscow. On March 29, 2014 he danced with the famous Japanese dancer Miyako Yoshida at the NHK Gala in Tokyo. In April 2014 he was part of the performance when Roberto Bolle was awarded the UNESCO medal in Paris.

Filip Barankiewicz also successfully completed his ballet pedagogue education in 2003. Besides dancing Filip Barankiewicz now also works as guest trainer at the Polish National Ballet in Warsaw as well as at the Ballet of the Czech National Theatre Prague. At the Stuttgart Ballet he coaches rehearsals of The Taming of the Shrew (John Cranko) and Giselle (prod.: Reid Anderson, Valentina Savina). In 2014 he will also coach the rehearsals of John Cranko’s Onegin at the Royal Swedish Ballet Stockholm and at the Finnish National Ballet in Helsinki. During his stays in Stockholm and Helsinki he also gave class.

since 2003 permanent guest at the National Theater Prague: Siegfried in Swan Lake, Petrucchio in The Taming of the Shrew and the title role in Onegin (both: John Cranko)

Petrucchio in The Taming of the Shrew (John Cranko) also as guest with the Ballet do Theatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro, the Norwegian National Ballet in Oslo, the Leipzig Ballet, the Ballet of the Semperoper Dresden and the West Australian Ballet

2003, 2006, 2009: 10th, 11th and 12th World Ballet Festival in Tokyo

2003: Gala in Cremona, Italy, with Alessandra Ferri

2009 and 2010: Roberto Bolle and Friends

2012: Hommage à Marika Besobrasova, Benefit Gala in Florenz

2012: XI. St. Petersburg International Ballet Award Dance Open

2012, 2013, 2014: performances at the Aids-Gala in Salzburg

2013: Basilio in the world Premiere Don Quichotte ou l’illusion perdue by Rui Lopes Graça at the Ballet de l’Opèra du Rhin

2013: Pas de deux My way (Stephan Thoss) with Alexander Zaitsev at the Gala during the Festival „Three Centuries of World Ballet“ on the occasion of the 240th Anniversary of the Bolshoi Ballet Academy

2014: NHL Gala in Tokyo with Miyako Yoshida; Aids-Gala in Salzburg; performance when Roberto Bolle was awarded the UNESCO medal in Paris